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<p style="font-size: 1.3em; background: #edfdd7; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #cde7a8">'''Sugar reinvents how computers can be used for education.''' It promotes sharing and collaborative learning and gives children the opportunity to use their laptops on their own terms. Children — and their teachers — have the freedom to reshape, reinvent, and reapply their software, and content. Sugar is a [[Community/GettingInvolved|community project]]; it is based on GNU/Linux, a free and open-source operating system.</p>
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=== Sugar Labs and its mission ===
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''[[Trademark|Sugar Labs Inc.<sup>®</sup>]] is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit organization dedicated to  
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# Promoting and supporting the "learn-by-doing" educational philosophy of Constructionism.
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# Producing educational software embodying Constructionist principles.
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# Empowering educators and educational institutions to incorporate constructionist learning tools into their curriculam.
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# Promoting lifelong learning through mentorship, and participation in the design and development of educational software.
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Its EIN is 84-3289298.
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Sugar Labs Inc. is supported by through the generous [[Sugar Labs/Getting Involved|volunteer efforts made by contributors]], [[Sugar Labs/Thank You|sponsorships]], and [https://www.sugarlabs.org/donate/ charitable donations].''
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=== Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration ===
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;First time visit?:
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:Welcome to Sugar Labs! We're excited to have you join our community! Please take a look around our wiki, our [https://www.sugarlabs.org/ Website] and our [http://github.com/sugarlabs GitHub Page] to learn more about our mission, projects, and community.
  
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:Learn more about Sugar Labs and our mission to provide educational software to children around the world. Discover how our software is designed to promote collaborative learning, critical thinking, and creativity.
  
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:Check out our developer documentation on Github, https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs. Join our community of developers and contribute to the Sugar Labs project! We welcome developers of all levels to help us improve and expand our software.
  
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:Go through our guide for GSoC,  https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC . We're excited to have you participate in this program! Learn about our project ideas, application process, and mentorship opportunities.
  
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:Welcome to the Sugar Labs community! We are contributors of all types - teachers, writers, coders, designers, testers, and more - who work together from around the world on Sugar. Visit the '''[[Sugar Labs/Getting Involved | Getting Involved]]''' page, and find out how you can join in the fun of learning. We have some [[Vacancies]] and are always looking for maintainers and testers. There are also non-technical roles and tasks where help is wanted. If you'd like to volunteer to help out, please see our [[Help_Wanted]] page for more information
  
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=== Experience Sugar in Various Ways: ===
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: '''Web-based and Multi-Platform:'''
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::* Try Music Blocks: https://musicblocks.sugarlabs.org/
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::* Try Turtle Blocks: https://turtle.sugarlabs.org/
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::* Try Sugarizer: https://sugarizer.org/
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::* Try Activities: https://try.sugarizer.org/
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: '''Sugar Development Environment:'''
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::* Sugar on a Stick: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick
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::* Sugar Activities on Flatpack: https://flathub.org/apps/search?q=sugar%20labs
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: '''Sugar on Raspberry Pi:'''
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::* Sugar on Raspberry Pi : https://www.sugarlabs.org/sugar-for-raspberry-pi/
  
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=== It is almost impossible to lose data ===
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[[Sugar Labs/Contacts | Contact&#x2004;Us]] | [[Sugar Labs | About&#x2004;Us]]
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{{Translations | [[Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki|english]] &#124; [[Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki/lang-es|español]] &#124; [[Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki/lang-pt_BR|português brasil]] &#124; [[Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki/lang-ps|پښتو]] &#124; [[Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki/lang-ru_RU|русский]]}}
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* A Sugar Labs meeting to discuss organization and goals is being held in Milan on 30 June 2008. Please join us in person or by IRC (#sugar-meeting on irc.freenode.net) beginning at 9:00 UTC+2.
 
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* A draft proposal for a governance model for Sugar Labs has been posted to the wiki (Please see [[Sugar Labs/Governance|the governance page]]). Feel free to make corrections and [[_talk:Sugar Labs/Governance|add comments]].
 
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* [[ReleaseTeam/Releases/Sucrose/0.81.2|Sucrose 0.81.2]] (Development Release) has been released.
 
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* Wolfgang Rohrmoser reports that a new release (080607) of the Livebackup XO-LiveCD is available ([http://dev.laptop.org/pub/livebackupcd/build-708+joyride-2024 XO-LiveCD]).
 
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For more news about Sugar Labs, please see visit the [[Sugar Labs/Current Events|Current Events page]].
 
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Sugar is available under the free software GNU General Public License (GPL) to anyone who wants to extend it. “Sugar Labs”, a (soon to be established) non-profit foundation will serve as a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and software developers who want to extend the platform and create Sugar-compatible applications. Sugar Labs software is found on the XO laptop. You can find more out about the project at laptop.org.
 
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<p style="font-size: 1.2em;">[[What is Sugar? | Learn more about Sugar...]] or [[Sugar Labs | learn about Sugar Labs, the organization behind Sugar]]</p>
 
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<p style="font-size: 1.2em;">[[Community/GettingInvolved | Get involved ]] in the Sugar [[DevelopmentTeam | development]] and [[Community/GettingInvolved#Join_a_Team | community]] efforts.</p>
 
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal Journal] ===
 
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* [[Community/GettingInvolved|Getting involved!]]
 
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* A Sugar [[taxonomy]] and a matrix of [[supported systems]]
 
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* A [[Sugar Labs/Background|background]] discussion on [[What_is_Sugar%3F|Sugar]] and [[Sugar Labs]]
 
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* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Sugar The Sugar category] on olpcwiki for more.
 
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Sugar Labs and its mission

Sugar Labs Inc.® is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit organization dedicated to

  1. Promoting and supporting the "learn-by-doing" educational philosophy of Constructionism.
  2. Producing educational software embodying Constructionist principles.
  3. Empowering educators and educational institutions to incorporate constructionist learning tools into their curriculam.
  4. Promoting lifelong learning through mentorship, and participation in the design and development of educational software.

Its EIN is 84-3289298. Sugar Labs Inc. is supported by through the generous volunteer efforts made by contributors, sponsorships, and charitable donations.

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First time visit?
Welcome to Sugar Labs! We're excited to have you join our community! Please take a look around our wiki, our Website and our GitHub Page to learn more about our mission, projects, and community.
New to Sugar?
Learn more about Sugar Labs and our mission to provide educational software to children around the world. Discover how our software is designed to promote collaborative learning, critical thinking, and creativity.
Software Developer?
Check out our developer documentation on Github, https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs. Join our community of developers and contribute to the Sugar Labs project! We welcome developers of all levels to help us improve and expand our software.
Google Summer of Code?
Go through our guide for GSoC, https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC . We're excited to have you participate in this program! Learn about our project ideas, application process, and mentorship opportunities.
Want to help?
Welcome to the Sugar Labs community! We are contributors of all types - teachers, writers, coders, designers, testers, and more - who work together from around the world on Sugar. Visit the Getting Involved page, and find out how you can join in the fun of learning. We have some Vacancies and are always looking for maintainers and testers. There are also non-technical roles and tasks where help is wanted. If you'd like to volunteer to help out, please see our Help_Wanted page for more information

Experience Sugar in Various Ways:

Web-based and Multi-Platform:
Sugar Development Environment:
Sugar on Raspberry Pi:


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